Even Old Media Stammers In Defending O

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell — who once worked at KYW many moons ago — interviewed former New Hampshire governor and Romney supporter John Sununu which wound up with with Sununu laughing at her brave but futile attempts to defend President Obama.


Here’s a partial transcript:

ANDREA MITCHELL, HOST: Isn’t it a winning issue for the White House fundamentally, granted that the Politifact folks and the Washington Post pointed out that the President’s campaign ad on that issue had a lot, a lot of questions and a lot of questionable attack lines… 
JOHN SUNUNU: No, they said it was wrong. A lot of questions is not right. It was wrong. 
MITCHELL: Okay, if, but the point is that doesn’t, isn’t Mitt Romney more vulnerable than the President on this issue because there still is, the whole question of private equity of outsourcing? You could argue about when he left Bain Capital, and, you know, whether he was still getting money from Bain Capital and what some of the companies in Bain were doing, companies that did end up working overseas and sending jobs overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: But isn’t it a bigger problem for Republicans than for the White House? 
SUNUNU: No. When you’ve sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day. There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries. Mitt Romney outsourced zero. Obama outsourced 29… 
MITCHELL: Zero? 
SUNUNU: Zero. He wasn’t there when those issues came up. 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: …the $29 billion are not all outsourced from the administration because… 
SUNUNU: Sure they are. 
MITCHELL: A lot of those jobs still remained here. There are jobs, when you do a grant, Governor, there are jobs here as well as overseas. 
SUNUNU: [Laughs] You’re struggling, Andrea. You’re struggling. [Laughs] 
MITCHELL: Well, first of all… 
SUNUNU: [Still laughing] 
MITCHELL: …these are competing claims and we will get back to you with all of the numbers. 
SUNUNU: Sure.


One thought on “Even Old Media Stammers In Defending O”

  1. Andrea Mitchell once said, in an interview with time magazine said that,”there is almost almost always something good about anyone you meet.”

    I wonder when was the last time she looked into a mirror.

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